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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
— Ben Jonson
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
— Ben Jonson
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
— Ben Jonson
Cut Men's throats with whisperings.
— Ben Jonson
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
— Ben Jonson
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
— Ben Jonson
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
— Ben Jonson
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
— Ben Jonson
Success hath made me wanton.
— Ben Jonson
All concord's born of contraries.
— Ben Jonson
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
— Ben Jonson
The burnt child dreads the fire.
— Ben Jonson
Your highest female grace is silence.
— Ben Jonson
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words ...
— Ben Jonson
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
— Ben Jonson
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
— Ben Jonson
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.
— Ben Jonson
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
— Ben Jonson
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
— Ben Jonson
Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
— Ben Jonson
My thoughts and I were of another world.
— Ben Jonson
He was not of an age, but for all time!
— Ben Jonson
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
— Ben Jonson
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
— Ben Jonson
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
— Ben Jonson
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
— Ben Jonson
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
— Ben Jonson
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
— Ben Jonson
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
— Ben Jonson
AMBITION MAKES MORE TRUSTY SLAVES THAN NEED
— Ben Jonson
She is a woman of an excellent assurance, and an extraordinary happy wit, and tongue. Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman
— Robert Galbraith
A good life is a main argument.
— Ben Jonson
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
— Ben Jonson
He threatens many that hath injured one.
— Ben Jonson
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
— Ben Jonson
CORV: Honour! tut, a breath: There's no such thing, in nature: a mere term Invented to awe fools.
— Ben Jonson
A good king is a public servant.
— Ben Jonson
They that know no evil will suspect none.
— Ben Jonson
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
— Ben Jonson
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
— Ben Jonson
How near to good is what is fair!
— Ben Jonson
A good poet's made as well as born.
— Ben Jonson
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
— Ben Jonson
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
— Ben Jonson
Hell itself must yield to industry.
— Ben Jonson
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
— Ben Jonson
Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
— Ben Jonson
Tell troth and shame the devil.
— Ben Jonson
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
— Ben Jonson
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
— Ben Jonson
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
— Ben Jonson
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
— Ben Jonson
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
— Ben Jonson
Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.
— Ben Jonson
